Ian Akers-Douglas

Ian Stanley Akers-Douglas (November 16, 1909 – December 16, 1952),
the son of George Akers-Douglas, and Doris Christopherson, was an
English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played
first-class cricket for Kent between 1929 and 1938. He was born in
Kensington and died in Frant, Sussex.

Akers-Douglas'
cricketing career began with one match for the Kent Second XI in the
1928 Minor Counties Championship, but he made his breakthrough
playing in his debut for the first team in 1929. He had played for
Oxford University in three matches, before making his Kent debut in
the same summer, against Warwickshire. Akers-Douglas made a good
account of himself in the first innings of the match, finishing as
the second-highest scorer in the first innings, with 33 runs to his
name. He played four further County Championship matches for the
team in the 1929 season.

Once again Akers-Douglas returned to
play for Oxford University in 1930, his second and final year
playing for the side. He made four further appearances in the County
Championship in the 1930 season, while Kent were to finish the
season fifth in the County Championship table. Akers-Douglas spent
1931 and 1933 out of the team, save for one single first-class
match, though 1932 saw him score his debut century for the side, his
career-best first-class score of 123. He played frequently during
1934 and 1936, but in 1935, 1937 and 1938 played just a single
first-class game in each year.

Following the close of the
1938 season, Akers-Douglas played just one further cricket match for
Kent, against the Rest of England. Akers-Douglas' grandfather was
onetime Test cricketer Stanley Christopherson, and his great-uncle
was two-time Kent player Percy Christopherson.

He married second, in 1965, Phyllis Parsons; their eldest son,
Alastair, succeeded as 4th Viscount Chilston.